Steering-wheel construction



W. C. RASTETTER STEERING WHEEL CONSTRUCTION Dec. 4, 192a. 1,476,673

Filed May 18. 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 A TTORNE Y Dec.4,1923. r 1,476,673

W. C. RASTETTER STEERING WHEEL CONSTRUCTION Filed May 18. 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet z INVYENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 4, i923. 7 m 1,475,673

UNITED STATES}. PATENT QFFEQE.

WILLIAM C. RASTETTER, 012 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

STEERING-\VHEEL CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed May 18, 1921. Serial No. 470,522.

To all whom it may concern: kerfs 2. Also, coincident with each kerf are Be it known that I, VVILLIALI C. RAsmade a pair of parallel holes 3 and 4 that TETTER, a citizen of the United States of extend in planes situated between the center America, and resident of Fort Wayne, in and circumference of the wheel.

5 the county of Allen and State of Indiana, The spider for the wheel is comprisedo'f have invented certain new and useful Ima hub from which extend a series of arms provements in Steering-Nhecl Construc- 678 and 9. The end of each arm is tions, of which the following is a specificashaped so as to fit into the corresponding tion. semicircular kerf in the rim and has also 1 This invention relates to improvements in a pair or" prongs 1011 arranged in parsteering wheel construction, and the object allel relation with each other and shaped thereof is to provide a wheel of that type to fit into the holes 3-4; leading from the used on the steering gear of automobiles in kerf. The arms of the spider are made sepawhich a wooden rim is mounted in connecrately from the hub and are riveted per 15 tion with a metallic spider, and to so form manently in position on the hub after their the ends of the spider arms and the cavities outer ends have been positioned in the rim. in the wooden rim for'the reception of the By thus forming and assembling the parts ends of the arms that the arms will be firmly of the wheel a rigid structure is obtained held in connection with the rim when the and the ends of the arms are securely held 20. parts of the wheel have been assembled. in connection with the rim without the use Another object is to so form the connections of screws as in the ordinary structure. a

of the spider arms and rim as to facilitate hat I claim is assemblage of the parts forming the wheel In a steering wheel construction a wooden and to insure permanence of the connections rim having a series of kerfs in its inner pe- 25 between the spider arms and rim. riphery; a spider, the arms of which are These objects are accomplished by the conformed in separate pairs, the outer ends of struction illustrated in the accompanying the arms of each pair and the corresponddrawings which Fig. 1 is a plan view of a ing kerfs being so formed as to admit siwheel embodying the invention, there be multaneous insertion of the ends into the 30 ing portions broken away and Fig. 2 is a kerfs'; and a hub having rigid connection similar view showing a modified form of with each pair of arms. the invention. In testimony whereof I aflix my signa- The characters included in the descrig; ture, in presence of two witnesses. tion refer to parts designated by corresponc i I 35 ing characters on the drawings, and refer- WILLIAM RASTETTER' ring now to the same Witnesses:

1 is a Wooden rim inthe .inner edge of MATILDA METTLER, which are made a series of semicircular VVALTER G. BURNS. 

